Opening tomorrow Thursday Feb. 3rd at Pony Club 6-10 PM TODAY’S ANOTHER DAY TO FIND YOU: Art based on A-Ha’s seminal Take On Me video! Group Show! 625 NW Everett St., #105 Including art by Emily Nilsson, Chris Cilla...
Read moreDavid King is the man you’re waiting for!
David King was just interviewed by fellow cartoonist Dustin Harbin here. David also did one of Dustin’s diary comics fill-ins here.
Read moreBrooklyn Party!
From Benjamin Mara: This Saturday, the 22nd, the fine folks at Bergen Street Comics (www.bergenstreetcomics.com) and I will be having a release party and signing for my recent comic book BENJAMIN MARRA’S THE INCREDIBLY FANTASTIC ADVENTURES...
Read moreChris Cilla’s Heavy Hand at Exquisite Things
Matt has given the Heavy Hand a really thorough and thoughtful review at the Exquisite Things http://exquisitething.blogspot.com/2011/01/forever-changes-chris-c-cillas-heavy.html (I had accidentally posted another link here, sorry about that.)
Read moreIPRC Comics Program Open Enrollment for Second Semester
Lisa Mangum and I are co-teaching a class called World Comics at the Independent Publishing Resource Center. Annie Murphy and Clio Reese Sady will be teaching Elements of Graphic Narrative. The classes are beginning on January 17th. We’ve...
Read moreWhirlwind Wonderland makes the cut!
Chris Mautner rates Rina Ayuyang’s Whirlwind Wonderland as one of the six most criminally ignored books of 2010. It is currently available from Diamond comics and your local comic stores too!...
Read moreSparkplug comics in Diamond Preview this month!
Four Sparkplug books are listed on page 308 of Diamond Comics Preview this month (January) currently in stores. Please tell your local stores to order hundreds (or maybe just one). The page is above, they put up an interview with me and a bunch...
Read moreNew in the shop today!
Today we added the anthologies Bound & Gagged and Quiet Human Contact (both of which have contributions from Sparkplug artists), Amy Kuttab’s excellent fairy tale How Dry I Am and Phillip Barrett’s haunting Black Shapes. Check...
Read moreTwo Top Ten Lists in one!
Kevin McCaighy and Matt D. have posted their top 10s list for last year. Elijah Brubaker’s Reich, Chris Cilla’s the Heavy Hand and Robert Sergel’s Eschew have all made the cut. Check out their blog Exquisite Things...
Read moreTop 10, 2010
Dylan asked me to make a top ten list of comics for the year. I’m not an expert or anything, and have mostly been too broke to buy books, but these are my favorite things I’ve read in 2010. Not all are strictly comics – some are...
Read moreJulia Gfrörer’s Flesh and Bone reviewed at Poopsheet!
Justin Giampaoli reviews Julia Gfrörer’s Flesh and Bone at Poopsheet. Insightful as always! http://poopsheetfoundation.com/forums/reviews/731-flesh-and-bone-by-julia-gfrorer
Read moreHeavy Hand and Lemon Styles make best of 2010 list.
Justin Giampaoli has created a pretty awesome best of 2010 list (including work by Patrick Keck whom I like a lot). Heavy Hand by Chris Cilla and Lemon Styles by David King both got flattering praise as well as Sparkplug in general. ...
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